After the president announced he would hold a rally for Luther Strange, the appointed incumbent who faces a tough runoff next week with Roy Moore, a pro-Trump nonprofit announced it would spend another half-million on the race.

Flynn's "core" legal team includes seven lawyers from a high-powered DC firm, a source tells BuzzFeed News, with "numerous" others involved. The fees will "certainly be into the seven figures," according to the source.

After President Trump's pardon, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and the Justice Department argued his contempt conviction should be vacated. But the judge overseeing the case isn't convinced.

Virginian voters of color put education and combatting white nationalism as issues of “extreme importance,” while removing Confederate statues was most frequently named by the group as a “somewhat important” issue.

Trump's remarks come just a day after he met with Sen. Tim Scott, the Senate's only black Republican, to discuss race in the wake of Charlottesville. Scott on Thursday said it's "unrealistic" to expect Trump to have an immediate "epiphany" on the issue.

Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio, on Trump’s tweets, issuing (polite) criticism when he thinks it’s warranted, and ways to work with the White House on his favored issues. But he’s not happy with the president’s attacks on Mitch McConnell — or with Steve Bannon’s effort to unseat other Republican senators.

After a 35-page dossier alleged that Michael Cohen worked with Russian officials during the 2016 election, President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer and confidante is set to speak with congressional investigators.

A federal appeals court ruled this past week that refugees who have received formal assurances of support from resettlement agencies should be exempted from President Trump's travel ban. The Justice Department is asking the justices to stop that from happening.

US District Judge Andrew Hanen has been a harsh critic of DACA and DAPA. But even after President Trump announced he was ending them and states asked to end the case against them, Hanen refused — citing what he said was a procedural error in the states' filing.

Phishing drills, top Silicon Valley hires, constant cybersecurity education, emails in the cloud, Tom Perez on Signal, and end-to-end encryption apps like Wickr, which the rest of the Democratic party committees have already adopted. The DNC’s new CTO, now concluding an internal security review, wants a “culture change inside the building.”

The appeals court also sided with Hawaii and a lower court judge's ruling that refugees who have received formal assurances of support from resettlement agencies are exempt from the refugee ban. UPDATE: The Justice Department will appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.

“Just too much to do back in Washington,” an adviser told BuzzFeed News. But Pence's interest in the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference became known around the time his jam-packed political schedule began raising eyebrows — and questions about 2020.

"To target these young people is wrong – because they have done nothing wrong. It is self-defeating – because they want to start new businesses, staff our labs, serve in our military, and otherwise contribute to the country we love. And it is cruel."

“Those in Republican leadership who have enabled his behavior by standing silent or making excuses for him deserve the reckoning that will eventually come for the GOP,” Sally Bradshaw, a longtime adviser to Jeb Bush, told BuzzFeed News.

In September, there’s going to be a conference for historically black schools coordinated by the White House, which will also house a key initiative on HBCUs, reversing an Obama-era policy. Nervous Democrats and educators have said: Postpone this. But the White House (and Omarosa Manigault-Newman) isn't folding. “HBCU presidents are in a really delicate position.”